Make-overs are really fun, aren’t they? I have one friend who hosts a small group where, once a month, the women help one another with new hairstyles and cosmetics. It’s fun to experiment with new products and techniques and get honest input from girlfriends about what looks best. Playing in this way is fun and usually healthy for women.

But, for some women, the pressure to be glamorous and stylish is overwhelming. Feelings of insecurity about personal beauty can push us to over-emphasize the externals and forget how much things like purity, contentment, inner peace and happiness contribute to how we look on the outside.

In this video, the mother and daughter have a good time getting quirky make-overs — a fun idea for an afternoon together. They have glamour shots taken by a photographer, posing and modeling and having a good time together. But all the time, in the background, a lovely song is playing (Jonny Diaz singing “More Beautiful You”), pointing out the pressures that come to young women to look  glamorous and sophisticated. How easy it is to forget what real beauty is all about!

Unfortunately, every girl doesn’t come from the kind of healthy, affirming family represented in the video. And even when she is surrounded by a loving family, many girls lose their perspective when faced with strong peer pressure to conform to a different standard during their teen years.

At this year’s Wellspring Women’s Conference, my good friend Sheri Cox will be conducting a workshop on Beauty. Hopefully, the women of all ages who attend, teens as well as adults, will be drawn to Sheri’s wisdom and insight on the topic of femininity and beauty. I was with her this past weekend and was enthralled by the power of her message. When I saw this video today on Tangle I just had to use it to put in a plug for Sheri and her workshop.

Watch and enjoy and let me hear your thoughts!